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There's been widespread international condemnation of Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela, which gave the incumbent Nicolas Maduro a landslide victory. What has been the effect of the election in Venezuela itself? A question for Emiliana Duarte, Managing Editor at news website, Caracas Chronicles. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened Iran with unprecedented sanctions. The 麻豆约拍 Persian service's business correspondent, Amir Paivar, gauges reaction in Iran to the move, aimed at preventing the country from developing a nuclear weapon. We get a markets update from Peter Jankovskis at Oakbrook Investments in Chicago. In Italy a law professor, Giuseppe Conte, has been named as the choice of the Five Star Movement and League to lead the coalition government. Giada Zampano. a freelance journalist based in Rome tells us what Italians know of the man now nominated to lead the government. Italian senator Emma Bonino, a former minister of international commerce, gives us her perspective on the proposed coalition deal. Also in the programme, we meet some of India's female athletes hoping to make their country a sporting superpower. Plus our new regular contributor Stephanie Hare explains why disobedience at work might actually benefit some companies.

(Photo: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addresses supporters after results were announced. Credit: Getty Images)